Pictures in the Cloud – SSDS demo app

Anyhow, I’ve been having a bit of hack around to show how pictures can be stored by this kind of service. There isn’t any reason to use this over the other online photo sharing sites, but it demonstrates how to use the API.

As far as I can tell, there are no ‘best practices’ about how to use SSDS (probably because no one is publicly using it for the enterprise yet). Hopefully writing this application will show me the best way to achieve this.

There isn’t a ‘release’ yet, but if you download the source, build it (VS 2008) get a username and password and edit the app.config then it should work straight away.

Performance may not be misleading on smaller blobs. However, on larger blobs it will be better as we end up spreading the blob over the entire cluster. This gives you better throughput as you are restricted by the I/O on any one node in the cluster (as you would be with the current approach you have).

What’s more, once we complete partial read/write support (via the Range header) you would be able to use multi-threading to really get better throughput.